PeriodicallyPedantic

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Maybe "options" was a bad choice of word.

These are things we're talking about and just because we're talking about a thing doesn't mean we are bound to choose it if given them as a choice.

I can say that I hate one thing more than another thing without ever being forced to choose either of them.
Just like in my example I'm not forced to run over a child's foot just because I spoke about it.

And besides sometimes you ARE forced to choose between a list of bad options. Especially in politics. There is certainly a "least bad" option, and treating everything bad as equal is, like I said before, how monsters get power.

I refuse to believe that these are the responses of someone having a good faith discussion. You're clearly trolling, but idky because you're not being funny or clever. You're just making tangential nonsense arguments for no discernable reason.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

That's such a cool story.

Too bad this isn't a discussion about that option. We're discussing the difference between option 2 and option 3, or the lack thereof. You can talk about things you don't want to choose.

Dude, wtf man. This isn't complicated, I don't know why you're having such a hard time of it.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 1 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Guess what?

You can rank a list of things by preference, even if it contains more than 2 items and multiple items are bad.

Let me give you an example:

  1. Give an innocent child a candy
  2. Run over an innocent child's foot
  3. Blow up an innocent child with C4

2 of those options are bad and indefensible, but between the bad options, one is certainly worse.

Come back to me when you have an argument that stands up to a light breeze, your "all bad things are equally bad" routine is the kind of nonsense that allows monsters to come into power.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 13 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

As a Canadian: fuck American products. Y'all want a trade war with us, fuck your shit.

All that to say, it's understandable to be angry at and suspicious of products made by antagonistic nations.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 2 points 16 hours ago

Oh shit. Time for a sneaky edit

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 2 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Good thing I didn't say that.
Too bad you missed when I called both "bad"

Two things can both be indefensible, and yet still one is preferable. Although you lead with "and", you seem to be suggesting that this isn't the case, which is a wild position that doesn't hold up to even that barest of scrutiny.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 7 points 1 day ago

Sure, if you use your own alternative definition of the terms, then all bets are off.

Authoritarianism is about how you're pressured or forced to do things, and left/right is about what those things are.

I know that if we get too nuanced about all the many many dimensions of politics, then we'll spend so all our time fighting semantics and get nothing done. But if you simplify down to a single axis then the terms lose all meaning and you likewise can't communicate anything of meaning.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)

When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

The authoritarian left is bad
The authoritarian right is bad
But if you think that the two are equally bad, then you're wronger than wrong

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 9 points 1 day ago

Coming from the other direction - when someone ackshullys a parson, but the person was using the phrase correctly.

I had to explain to someone online today that "liminal space" had multiple meanings, and it didn't only refer to spaces you transition through, and the spooky "liminal space aesthetic" is a valid and coherent use of the word "liminal" and the term "liminal space"

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 1 points 1 day ago

I meant with the servers too, not just an empty rack.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 1 points 2 days ago

In case it wasn't obvious, I was trying for this

Tap for spoiler

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Most hosted AI image generators didn't wanna make this, so I had to use grok, which is shitty.

promptCreate an image in the style of a still frame from a movie. In the frame the Whitehouse is exploding in a great fireball, with splintered wood flying through the air. An enormous city sized flying saucer is hovering above the Whitehouse, firing a blue beam into the Whitehouse, which is what caused the explosion. The flying saucer is very detailed and covered with greebles. The Whitehouse is exploding into pieces. The scene is at night, lit by the explosion fireball. The perspective is from the Whitehouse front lawn.

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hmmm (lemmy.ca)
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That was quick

 

Ontario must never be forgiven for this

 

And Jamaican patty

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I can't stop listening to this.
I feel like I need to go play chess now. Idk if it's AI generated or not, but it's so catchy

 

I'm probably going to judge you if you say Holocene, without an interesting non-trivial reason.

 

Using copilot:

generate and image of Shrek opening a can of beans, but unexpectedly Mac & cheese flies out and lands on the donkey

Unholy union of ai memes

 

I remember everyone calling her androgynous at the time. Looking back, that was an absolutely wild thing for people to think.

 

What a sweet deal! Thanks Hello Fresh!

They really said
🙅 "Disney+, with ads on us"
👉 "Disney+ with ads, on us"

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Theme

Create a new sport that you think should be added to the next (or some future) Olympic games.

I've heard that the Olympics are currently happening, so I figured why not celebrate this by telling the Olympic committee how dumb they are for passing over your new idea for an Olympic sport!

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

Prize Points
Most upvoted +3 points
Second most upvoted +2 point
Third most upvoted +1 point
OP’s favorite +1 point
Most original +1 point
Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
Prompt and workflow included +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!
Previous entries

 

I've been trying to find this video for a while with no luck, and idk what other community to ask.

The video features this yellow dancing CG blob alien thing, and the lyrics go something like:

We made AI to do the dumb stuff, so we could do the fun stuff
But now it does the fun stuff, and we became the dumb stuff

Does anyone remember it, or know where to find it?
The little singing alien thing popped up a few times on my FYP but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I can't find any evidence that it ever existed.

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